Perhaps it feels that way because your farmland is not being poisoned by cocacola giving you industrial waste and calling it fertiliser; or because your children are not being killed by Nestlé miss-selling formula; or because your family is not being tortured and murdered by Shell Oil and the like. Perhaps you don't know anyone who died at Bhopal?
This is a tiny fraction of the fucking scary things that big companies do today.
You're right of course. It feels that way because of a. companies we're talking about, b. fact that I live in the so-called first world. I probably haven't made that explicit enough, thus making the comment sound much more general than it was supposed to be.
To restate: being a Facebook user in Europe feels safer than government surveillance. Dealing with Nestlé or Coca Cola in poor countries - obviously not so much.
Also thanks for the other two examples, haven't heard about them before.
This is a tiny fraction of the fucking scary things that big companies do today.
CocaCola- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3096893.stm
Nestlé- http://www.babymilkaction.org/nestlefree
Shell torturing and murdering campaigners- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8090493.stm
Bhopal- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster